Hi, been banging my head on this problem for a couple of weeks now- tried all sorts of solutions and nothing has worked.I want to be able to connect to my Linux Mint Gnome 12 which is located in the garage from my Windows XP located in my bedroom using Windows RDP. If i really have to and it works ill use VNC.I have setup the remote desktop in the gnome desktop classic screen - enabled access and entered password.When I try to login remotely....here is what happens...

I can access the X11rdp login screen as it were. It gives me multiple protocols that i can connect with- I use Xvnc enter the username and password, a session screen comes on advising that connection is in process accepts login the fires up a "failed to load session "ubuntu"??

I use the X11rdp protocol- session monitor says login successful, connected ok then kicks me out of the windows RDP client???

Can anyone help? Also I have tried VNC in the past, generally I find that its laggy and not as responsive as Windows RDP...is the sessman X11RDP server in Linux Mint 12 just as "good" as windows RDP?